France on Monday made an announcement refusing Niger’s appeal, last week, for western military action against Islamist fighters who have established bases in Southern Libya since the 2011 overthrow of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. Niger’s call for help is a desperate one as Islamist attacks and kidnappings on its mineral-rich soil have posed a threat to […]
A resolution authorising European Union troops to use force in the Central African Republic (CAR), which has been torn apart by inter-religious violence over the past few months, was approved in a crucial UN Security Council earlier this week. This follows the EU’s own approval of a military operation, in which up to 600 soldiers […]
The Algerian military hierarchy finds itself on Thursday, December 12, confronted to a serious test, that of a boycott of the presidential election, at a time it made of this election its number one priority. The army has wholly committed itself to the polls, but without involving the Algerian people. It is gambling its credibility. […]
